Moca oxystoma

Moca oxystoma is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by John David Bradley in 1962. It is found on Vanuatu in the South Pacific.[1]

Moca oxystoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Immidae
Genus:	Moca
Species:	M. oxystoma
Binomial name
Moca oxystoma (Bradley, 1962)
Synonyms
Imma oxystoma Bradley, 1962

The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are chestnut brown mixed with mummy brown, the basal third overlaid with blackish, edged distally with scattered iridescent violet-plumbeous scales. There are three moderately large well-defined mustard-yellow elliptical spots with suffused fuscous centres on the costa, the first beyond the blackish basal area, the second a little beyond the middle, the third at about three-fourths. There is an elongate transverse blackish bar at the end of the cell (along the discocellulars), a sprinkling of iridescent violaceous scales beyond. There is a small blackish dot contiguous with the inner margin of the third costal marking and a similar pre-apical dash on the costa. The termen is outlined with a thin blackish line in which are set minute pale mustard-yellow dots at the end of the radial veins. The hindwings are light fuscous, the basal half thinly scaled and subhyaline.[2]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Moca oxystoma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
2. "Microlepidoptera from the New Hebrides".